Enrichment

Image From wallpaperput.com

(Originally posted June 2013)
 

connected by keystrokes
kinetically energized concepts
ride beams of invisible light
bounced off stars
back to millions of eyes
watching words interweave
foreign stories and poems
that reveal common
struggles and dreams

electronic humanity
gratefully learning
the panoply range of
religion and race
language culture and place
distinguish the intellect
adding uniquely to
brain-wrinkle wisdom
enriching the mind of mankind

Miracle

(Originally posted June 2013)

 

rare joy visits genius
socially reticent
angled to awkward
brow canted eccentric
profoundly engrossed
eyes freakishly focused
exquisitely clear
heart pumps silver truth
through scholarly veins
condensed certainties
dripping from brainpan
moisten the tongue
fingers permanent curled
around unseen answers
unaware how they
came to possession

who besides Mensa
could love such a creature
humility misfit
with unhumble traits
yet she does

Mensa Logo
Image from prweb.com

Mouthbreather

Cubism Period Portrait by Picasso

did I mislearn this business of breathing
the inhale and exhale of gravity
nitrogen oxygen carbon exchanging
identities subject to rote biochemistry
something that ought not require a thought

yet I’m wont to admit that appropriate
roles of the nose and the mouth in respiring
confuse me and trade functions randomly
leaving me worried about my intelligence
mouthbreather being an epithet even the
stupid can well comprehend and yet here
am I catching myself sometimes swallowing
great gulps of air willy-nilly or dozing above
boring pages of poetry only to wake with a
start at the noise of my dissonant snores

though at least I can find peace and comfort
in knowing I have enough smarts to distinguish
between acts of smelling and tasting with
perhaps the exception of uneasy moments
when coughing and snorting with red-faced
chagrin I would find I had somehow ingested
my umpteenth cold beer through my nose

Bicameral Hostility

“Abstract Brain” by Adrian Nadeau

two brains may be
one brain too many
this constant contention
between left and right
takes a toll on the soul
each intelligent hemisphere
curbed and curtailed
by antagonist tendencies

forensics in combat with faith
language vying with music
calculus clashing with concepts
cold logic against intuition
well-reasoned analysis
fights well-imagined hypothesis
science a truculent foe
in the face of philosophy

thanks be to God for the poet
that singular lifeform
uniquely equipped
to collaborate truce
to bring synthesis from the division
and make of the mind
one astonishing whole
worth much more than its halves

Halfwits

 

to see with one eye

to hear with one ear

insults the endowment

of reasoned free will

ignores the philosophers

from Plato to Nozick

injures the birthright

heirloom of Cleisthenes

 

such half-informed citizens

founder and slump

in the wallowing

squalor of demagogues

Challenger

Challenger Disaster
Photo by NASA
From nationalgeographic.org

remember the rocket
nine miles seven lives
in a race from the face
of their earthly creation
those terrible plumes
uncertain of origins
stark pretty horror
desperate white fingers
scrabbling at sky
turning thrills into
shudders of realization
curl destiny downward
draw preludes to grief

the best minds who
admired vast visions
missed noticing
least deadly details
of intricate
cause and effect
such are flaws
that afflict and impinge
on our human intelligence
grown beyond scale
of small perils
possessing the powers
of terrible tragedy

Fibonacci 13 – IQ

Human Mind
Illustration from metaphysicsforlife.com

in
one
quotient
may be found
its own negation
flagrant irony attaches
when the incalculable is given a number

Aborting Genius

“A Bit More Pressure Can be Good for You”
Painting by Alan Firmin
From “Be Fearful of Mediocrity” at afirmin.com

exquisite raw feats of
sure genius
by uncommon autistic savants

serve to illustrate how much
pure genius
human intellect desperately wants

to unleash of potential
poor genius
starved by schools focused on the mundane

who will manage to damn well
cure genius
before it takes root in the brain

Night Owl

Image from camelcitydispatch.com

 

fierce intelligence

keeps vigil on the darkness

mascot of Mensa

 

Immodesty

 

They say beauty’s skin deep, that no Paris model

Could ever make MENSA or quote Aristotle.

But that seems unfair to we brainy and pretty,

Myself, I’m quite handsome and terribly witty.